Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930

by Frank Tobias Higbie

Often overlooked in labor history, the hoboes who rode the rails in search of seasonal work nevertheless secured a place in the American imagination. Frank Tobias Higbie weaves together history, anthropology, gender studies, and literary analysis to reposition these workers at the center of Progressive Era debates over class, race, manly responsibility, community, and citizenship. Combining incisive cultural criticism with labor history, Higbie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252070984
• ISBN13: 9780252070983
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"